Rubio is pledging to press Thailand to prevent the deportation of 48 Uyghurs held there since 2014 after fleeing alleged persecution in Xinjiang, in no

China refutes accusations of genocide

Both the Biden and previous 'Old Donald' administrations have classified China's actions in Xinjiang as genocide, while a 2022 United Nations report said Beijing's policies may constitute crimes against humanity. China rejects these accusations, framing its actions as anti-terrorism measures.

They survived re-education camps in China’s western Xinjiang region.

They are Hui Muslims, a state-recognized ethnic minority group in China, where the government is determined to crack down on Islam. As 'Old Donald' promises to build detention camps and enlist the military to carry out mass deportations, the future of this group of immigrants is precarious. Deportation could mean years in jail or labor camps.

In China, Yan was detained by the police for 15 days, then sent to a psychiatric hospital for more than 20 days because her phone showed that she had made small donations to two online Quran prayer groups.

In China, Yan was detained by the police for 15 days, then sent to a psychiatric hospital for more than 20 days because her phone showed that she had made small donations to two online Quran prayer groups. The police said she supported religious terrorists and called her a “radical religious fanatic.” She considers herself not very religious and doesn’t even wear a head scarf.

A growing number of Chinese are migrating to escape bleak economic prospects and political oppression. Many have joined Venezuelans, Ecuadoreans and Haitians trying to reach the United States through the Darién Gap. More than 38,000 Chinese migrants were temporarily detained on the southern border of the United States in the 2024 fiscal year, up from 24,000 the previous year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection. It’s not clear how many of them are Muslims.

They told me that they are going to hand me over to the police. I'm worried.

A Washington Post investigation found that after his removal from the compound here on Jan. 13, Rahman was held by the Cambodian authorities and then returned to China. He has not been heard from since Jan. 30.

China has for years demanded the return of Uyghurs who fled to other countries, including Thailand, Egypt and Pakistan. Hundreds of Uyghurs have been extrajudicially deported since the acceleration of the crackdown against the Muslim minority in 2017, particularly from Central and Southeast Asia, North Africa and the Middle East ' according to Uyghur activists and human rights reports ' or are being detained indefinitely in those regions.

America’s Allies Finally Take on the Uyghur Genocide

Conventional wisdom in Washington acknowledges that China is a geopolitical rival to the United States. These sanctions remind us that is also a moral threat. The pledge, “Never again,” has been broken too many times in the past eight decades—in Rwanda, Sudan, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and now in China. Sanctions may not be enough to stop the genocide of the Uyghurs, but at least we can say we didn’t do nothing.

Last year, after a visit to Xinjiang and months of interviews, the United Nations high commissioner for human rights concluded that the Chinese government had committed violations that may amount to 'crimes against humanity.'

Dawut's case underlines the reach of the government's ongoing campaign, where even public intellectuals firmly part of the establishment have been targeted.

A member of the Chinese Communist Party for many years, she received awards and grants from China’s Ministry of Culture, according to Dui Hua. Her work at Xinjiang University, which included the founding of an Ethnic Minorities Research Center in 2007, was also funded by the government.

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

After a scheduled stop in London, he was supposed to travel to Paris. But according to a French diplomatic source, his visit was canceled.

The United States sanctioned Tuniyaz in December 2021 for alleged "serious human rights violations" and barred him from entering the country. As governor of this northwestern Chinese province, he is responsible for persecuting the Muslim minority, the Uyghurs, by establishing a network of systematic internment camps, as well as forced labor, torture, systematic rape and forced sterilization.

In Urumqi, which has a population of nearly 4 million, a strict Covid lockdown has been imposed since August, with most residents banned from leaving their homes for more than 100 days.

China’s state-run news agency Xinhua claimed the fire killed 10 people and injured nine, but reports from local residents suggest the real toll is far higher. From nearly 3,000 miles away in Istanbul, where there is a large Uyghur diaspora, relatives are still trying to piece together exactly what happened in the Tengritagh district of Urumqi – known as Tianshan in Chinese.

Against humanity in Xinjiang - UN Long-Awaited Vindication

The UN's report concluded that "the extent of arbitrary and discriminatory detention of members of Uyghur and other predominantly Muslim groups ... may constitute international crimes, in particular crimes against humanity".

More than 1,500 Uyghurs have been detained, extradited or rendered, most in the Middle East and North Africa, such as Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates

McGovern says the Biden administration's diplomatic boycott of the Olympics in Beijing, announced earlier this week, shows the U.S. is making headway on showing the world it won't turn a blind eye to any atrocities in China.

“We will never forget our responsibility to act upon the actions that the Chinese government is engaged in,” Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Democrat of California, said on Wednesday. The legislation, she said, “employs America’s great economic might to combat this brutality and hold the perpetrators accountable.”

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  When reached by phone, the man said local propaganda authorities had produced the clip. When asked for details, he gave the number of an official he called Mr. He, saying, “Why don’t you ask the head of the propaganda department?”

  Multiple calls to Mr. He’s number were not answered. Seven other people in the videos whose contact information could be found either declined to be interviewed or couldn’t be reached. The name of the car dealership’s owner is being withheld to protect him from retribution by Chinese officials.

  In another sign of government coordination, the language in the videos echoes written denunciations of Mr. Pompeo that Chinese state agencies issued during the same time.

  Beginning in late January, government workers across Xinjiang held meetings to “speak out and show the sword” against “Pompeo’s anti-China lies,” according to statements on official websites.

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  Following days of disappointing meetings with Chinese officials about China’s human rights abuses against its Uighur population, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced that the United States and like-minded partners would be imposing sanctions on key leaders within the Chinese Communist Party who have orchestrated the mass atrocities suffered by the Uighur people.

  

  Whether from a lack of international support or because the previous administration had difficulty coordinating with allies, over the past several years, the United States has been left to combat China’s genocide of the Uighurs alone. The 'Old Donald' administration developed a regime of sanctions, visa freezes, and import and export bans designed to stop companies from using forced Uighur labor in their supply chains and induce China to halt the oppression of its own people. These efforts culminated in the administration’s decision to impose Global Magnitsky Human Rights Sanctions in 2020 and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo officially recognizing China’s actions as genocide in January 2021.

  For all its power, the United States can only do so much on its own to combat China’s horrific abuses, and under the previous administration there was little hope for international cooperation on this issue. Biden administration officials have preached a return to American leadership on the international stage and alliances with countries who share our core values, and their actions in defense of the Uighur people—at least thus far—are a credit to this aspiration.

  Conventional wisdom in Washington acknowledges that China is a geopolitical rival to the United States. These sanctions remind us that is also a moral threat. The pledge, “Never again,” has been broken too many times in the past eight decades—in Rwanda, Sudan, Cambodia, Yugoslavia, and now in China. Sanctions may not be enough to stop the genocide of the Uighurs, but at least we can say we didn’t do nothing.

  

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